Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. IT WAS A PROCESSION. With The Volunteer For pr. The ?.. Leader. THE THISTLE BADLY BEATEN. Left Far Astern At The
 Finish. BOND SALES FALLING OFF. The English Idea Of MT.
 Blaine.
BOND SALES FALLING OFT
VOLUNTEER WINS WITH EASE.

VOLUNTEER WINS WITH EASE. A Light Xyind But the Scotch Cutter 1 IA Left Behind from the Start ThOusands View the Race and Greet the Victor at the Finish.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Ha1f the battle for the possession of the Americas cup was l won to-day, when General Paine's hand some sloop yacht Volunteer defeated the Sccth cutter Thistle minutes 235 seconds
 over the thirty-eight mile course of the New
 York Yacht club. It had been generally un- derstood that the Thistle was yacht to be feared in a light breeze, but to-day's race has shown conclusively that the Volunteer is more than a match for her. The first eleven miles of the course from the start of, buoy 1e, to the Southwest Spit was all ! windward work in light variable breezes and against the flood tide. In this work the Volunteer was admirably handled by Captain Half and Joe Ellsworth, beating her rival IF
 minutes 35 seconds. From here to Sandy
 Hook lighthouse, 1024 miles, both laid their courses with the wind at times point free, and the Thistle was beaten minutes 21 sec- onds. Back to Southwest Spit it was reach, and from there to the finish dead before the wind, the Thistle gaining 1 minute 2615 secs onds.
 Such f1otilla of steamers and sailing ceaft has never been seen in New York bay as that which assembled at the start and later accompanied the two giant single stickers over the course. Steamships and steambeats, steam yachts, launches and tugs of all de- scriptions, each carried their quota of enthu- siastic sightseers, and it is estimated that thirty thousand people witnessed the race from their decks. So eager were the cap tains to give their passengers good view that they not only ran the risk of collision with each other, but seriously and in some cases shamefuly impeded the progress of the
 racers. There was anything but promising outlook for good yachting day at 8:50 when Commodore Gerry's steam yacht Electra, the flagship, left her anchorage off East Twenty sixth street for the starting point, Owls Head. A thick haze, almost fog,
 hung over the river and there was not wind
 enough to blow the flags out at the yachts
 mastheads. Secretaries Whitney and Fair
 child, Captain Henry Exlien, U. s. N..
 Lieutenant E. L. Zalinski, Chief Justice
 Van Brunt and George D. Ingraham,
 with a number of ladies and gentle
 men prominent in New York society,
 were guests of Commodore Gerry
 on board the flagship. which had been placed
 at the disposal of the regatta committee,
 Messrs. Stephen Peabody, Gouveneur Kart
 right and Alexander Taylor, ,ir., as the judges
 boat The members of the Americas cup
 committee on board were ex-Commodore
 James D. Smith, Philip Schuyler and c. c.
 Haight Commodore Gerry's staff consisted
 of Fleet Captain Kortright, Fleet Surgeon
 M. J. Asch, Secretary Johu Bird and George
 L. Schuyler. The Electra dropped anchor
 and swung to the ebb tide a cables length to
 the westward of buoy IS at 9:15 with the
 Secretary of the Navy's blue flag flying at
 her maintruck. The Thistle iwas already
 under way standing slowly across the upper
 bay on the port tack, her immense spirit top
 sail reaching far up into the haze aloft
 Captain Barr was at the tiller and close be-
 side him in spotless white flannel yachting
 suit stood JamesBill, the Thistle's chief owner.
 About the deck were his guests and co-work-
 CTS, Sir Donald Matherson, Charles and An
 derson Coates, Designer Watson and Latham
 A. Fiske, the latter being General Paine's
 representative. Every passenger steamer sa-
 luted and it's passengers cheered. The wind
 was so light that to stem the tide the Thistle
 had to anchor at $40 The Volunteer was
 lowed out from Bay Ridge soon after, lock-
 ing every inch fighting craft; and Captain
 Half, to save time and patience, anchored
 the sloop near the Thistle. The police boat
 Patrol in charge of Inspectors Byrnes and
 Williams lowered about the white beauty as
 if to protect her, and many hearty wish for
 her success was shouted across the water
 from the thousands standing shoulder to
 shoulder on the decks of the iron steamers
 Sirins, Cepheus and Pegasus, the New York
 club boat Taurus and the Grand Republic
 and Columbia, all of which were loaded to
 their guards with passengers.
 It was not till 12 o'clock that breeze from
 the northeast came with the first of the
 flood tide, ruffiing the waters of the bay and
 gladdening the hearts of the waiting thou sands whose patience was well nigh ex- hausted. The preparatory gun was fired from the flagship at 1920 and then there was great scurrying of steamboats to clear space for the yachts to start. The Thistle got underway first and she astonished the spectators by the way she skipped through the water with scarcely any wind, Captain Barr steering her through 8 perfect mesh of steamboats. Ten minutes was allowed between the first gun and the one to start and when at 12:30 that was given the Thistle had just secured weather position close under the Long Island shore. She was on the port tack close hauled with the Volunteer three lengthf astern on ner lee quarter. Down they came for the imaginary line drawn between the Electra and buoy No. 18 both carrying exactly the same sail, mainsail, club tapsail, fore stay sail, jib and ! jib top sail. Captain Barr; at the Thistle's l long tiller, shot the cutter oyer the line first at 12. 33:07, the Volunteer following under Captain Haff's skillful guidance at 12:34:58A. It was impossible to see the Narrows for the l fleet of steamers and sailing craft, but the yachts worked down against the flood tide cleverly and it soon became evident that The Captain Half and Joe Ellsworth combi- l nation was going to be hard one to beat. | At 12:39 the Thistle tackled to starboard and a minute later the Volunteer went about, the cutter following suit at once to try and pre- vent Captain Half from crossing his bow, for the white sloop had been catching her from the start. Another minute and the shout f went up, "We've got her," on board the Electra as both tackled again and the Volun- | teer was seen to be on the cutters weather 1 quarter. And so it was. Captain Joe Ellsworth had out-generaled Captain ! for the Narrows, the leach of the cutters | mai1sail Hopping all the time and in spite of ! all the "pinching" her skipper could do the Volunteer steadily drew away from her, both running gauntlet of steamboats that per | sistently remained in the channel in spite of
 the repeated warnings from the Electra and | the police boat. Four tacks brought the boats out clear of the various craft, 1 the Volunteer passing Fort Lafayette at l 1 p. m. and the Thistle at 1:O5. Guns from l the fort boomed out their salutes they passed. Of Coney Island point at 1:22 the
 Volunteer and gained lead of fully mile. The wind was fight and variable and at times the Thistle lay becalmed. while the Boston ! sloop forged ahead, Captain Half seeming | to seer her where the puHs came oftenest. At 1888 she went about and in four
 minutes round she came again, holding on to
 this tack (starboard) for twenty-two minutes
 before tacking again. Then she was over g | mile in the lead. The breeze had swung
 around to southeast and was breeding up . little. Like an arrow she skipped away for
 buoy 10, luffiing around it amid pandem >
 nium of steam whistles and cheers at 2:21:03 The time taken at buoy 815, South west Spit, was: Volunteer 2:27:4O, Thistle
 2.36:45. From here to the lghtship the
 Volunteer walked right along at 8 rattling